Archive for the ‘Nokia’ Category

Nokia N96 launch Expected in UK for August 2008

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Most of the mobile blogger seems to have love the functionality that a N Series phones are giving and that is why these phones are blogged more than any other device. N-Series devices are some of the best devices ever released by and now, N96 is ...

Nokia to acquire Symbian Limited to enable evolution

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share.  The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares ...

Nokia to acquire social-activity service provider Plazes

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Nokia and Plazes (www.plazes.com) today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, and ...

Nokia Releases E71 & E66 Both with BlackBerry And iPhone Features

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

With competition in the mobile phone market heating up, Nokia unveiled two exciting handsets yesterday that look shockingly similar to a BlackBerry, and also have some pretty nice entertainment services that meet or exceed features on the iPhone. Nokia released the Nokia E71, and the Nokia E66, which are ...

Nokia completes Trolltech acquisition

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Espoo, Finland - On June 5th, 2008 European Commission announced that it had unconditionally approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech ASA (OSE: Troll). Nokia today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Trolltech, a recognized software provider with world-class software ...

Nokia receives European Commission merger control approval for the acquisition of Trolltech

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

The European Commission today announced that it has unconditionally approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech ASA (OSE: Troll). Nokia will now proceed with the consummation of the offer.   Settlement for the shares tendered in the offer is expected to take place on ...

Nokia Maps 2.0 Final Version Available Now

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

In case you didn't hear Nokia made Nokia Maps 2.0 available for the masses. Before anybody was free to try out the beta version which was for testing purposes. Downloaded over 240,000 times since announced in February, Nokia Maps 2.0 has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added ...

Nokia to distribute KONAMI games for N-Gage platform

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

  Nokia and KONAMI, a leading global developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties, today announced that KONAMI mobile titles will be added to the N-Gage mobile games platform. The mobile version of the award-winning METAL GEAR SOLID® will be the first title in the games line-up. ...

Eduardo Cachucho wins 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

  When Eduardo Cachucho, a 23 year old architecture student, entered the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards, he had no idea his film would be seen by millions of people around the world.  Cachucho shot the winning mobile short film "The Game" in his home base in South ...

Nokia and Ikivo bring designers and developers together to improve the productivity and creativity of mobile Java developmen

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Nokia and Ikivo, a leading supplier of rich media application enabling solutions based on open standards, today announced the joint creation of a complete tool chain that simplifies and allows efficient collaboration between graphic designers and software engineers in the development of Java applications for mobile devices.   The new tool set ...